AN: This is mostly going to be in Luffy group's Pov, unless stated otherwise. The next chapter will probably be back into Zoey and her gang's POV. I just wanted to get Luffy's Group insight for a bit. Also for those who where wondering this is taking place after Waters 7 but before Thriller Bark. So Brooke isnt apart of the Straw hats yet. This is probably going to be a short chapter.
~Somewhere on the waters of the Grandline~
Out on the open ocean there was a red ship with a lion/sunflower head figure. On the main sail there was a smiling skull and crossbones with a strawhat on its head. This ship belonged to none other than the infamous Strawhat Pirates, and the rookie pirate captain with a bounty of 300,000,000 beli for his head, was none other than Monkey D. Luffy.
The flags on top of this ship flapped in the wind, as the ship sailed along the blue waters of the Grandline. This ship was usually very noise but right now it wasn't it was kinda scary in all reality. Just then the captain jumped up from his spot perched on the Thousand Sunny's head.
"Oye, Nami! I see an island up ahead!" shouted a childish voice up ahead. He was jumping up and down on the figure head, making his crew worry. Said captain was nortorious for falling off of the ship and with him being a hammer, he just sink to the bottom of the sea.
"Really, Luffy? Well, I guess we can stop there. We're still a long way from Fish-Man Island.", Nami said.
Nami really didn't want to stop at the island, because it usually ment that Luffy would find some sort of trouble and drag the rest of the crew into it. Just then a little brown fuzzball came walking up to Nami.
"I can buy the latest medical books." came a voice from a little reindeer with a blue noise as he looked up at Nami.
"And I can restock on our food supplies." a blonde-haired boy said. He just came from the kitchen and headed to Nami-swan after checking the food suplies, they were ok for now, but you could never tell with Luffy. The cook was just happy to have a refrigerater with a lock on it now. Which ment Luffy couldn't have midnight snacks anymore.
"What a good idea, Sanji." Nami said, smiling at the boy.
It was probably a good idea to restock their food suplies, so it should be a simple stop. But somewhere in the back of her mind, told her this wasn't going to be a simple restocking trip.
It's been about a half hour since Luffy spotted the island, his sense of adventure was kicking in. But this waiting was going to drive him crazy.
"NAMI! When will we reach the island?" Yelled Luffy impatiently. His was bouncing up and down on his seat on the lion's head.
"It won't be for another hour or so, Luffy. So just be patent, will ya?" she said, bitterly.
Nami knew that patence was not Luffy's thing and this hour was going to do all but kill him. Nami looked back at her log post. It still pointed the way to Fish-Man Island. With that she left to go to the girls room on the ship, she was going to be spending the next hour working on her maps.
~At the island, on Thousand Sunny~
The island was in full view now, they were only minutes away from docking in the port. Sunny sailed easily into the harbor. The crew already foild the sail and tied the flags around the flag poles. They were not about to get caught by the marines on this island, so they were being careful to make the ship less noticable. And with it being a new ship for the crew not all the marines know of it...yet.
Nami called for the whole crew to deck. She was going over the usual rules...not like anyone ever listens to them. Or in some cases just ingore them all together.
"We're here, but we cannot stay long because we don't want the log post to reset itself while we're here. Let's just grab all of the supplies we need, rest a bit, and leave." Nami announced to the crew. She was eyeing Luffy especially.
Luffy was pouting at Nami, it felt like she was signaling him out, and he didn't like it one bit.
"Aww, but Nami, I want to explore the island and get FOOD!" yelled Luffy, who was now getting a sense of hunger.
"NO WAY, MORON!" Nami shouted.
Just then, Luffy peeled off and disappeared into the village.
"Gah! Doesn't he know the meaning of NO?", Nami asked rheotorically.
"Zoro, go find the rubber idiot."
"Why do I have to?", Zoro whined lazily. "I'm not his babysitter, y'know."
"Let's see, if you don't, one, I'll raise your debt. And two, you're his First Mate. He's your Captain, and your responsibility..."
Nami knew she was hitting all the key points and Zoro had no choice but to do them. But on the other note, Luffy was her captain also.
"Stupid sea witch..." Zoro muttered, as he walked away from Thousand Sunny.
Zoro rested his hand on top of his swords. There was this feeling that this was going to be a very long day.
"I heard that, Zoro!" Nami yelled from the Thousand Sunny's deck. "You are so lucky I am not over there...!" Her voice echoed as the man made his way into the village.
~In village~
Zoro walked into the village and looked around for his Captain. Zoro spotted Luffy standing in the middle of the street, looking left and right as if to decide what way to go.
"Oye, Luffy! Wait up, will ya?" Zoro hollered breathlessly.
Zoro was finally able to cetch up to his hyper active, strawhat wearing captain.
"Hahaha, oh hey, Zoro! I'm hungry, we should get some food..." Luffy grinned in a most-chesire smile.
"We should wait for the others, you idiot." the First Mate glared with a sigh.
"Aww, but I'm hungry." Luffy groaned loudly.
"When are you ever 'not hungry', Luffy? You're nothing but a bottomless pit when it comes to food." Zoro said with even more annoyance.
"Well, if I can't have food, then let's go and explore the village." Luffy said. His eyes glowed with anticipation and excitement.
Yep this was going to be a long day for Zoro. Luffy doesn't take 'no' for an answer.
With that, Zoro and Luffy went off to explore the village despite poor Zoro's refusal.
~A while later~
Luffy and Zoro manage to meet back up with the crew after a hour or so of looking around the village. Luffy wanted to explore the forest but Zoro was able to convince him not to. How Zoro was able to do it, even he doesn't know, but he's glad that he did.
Now Luffy was complaining to Nami in an attempt to get her to take them to a bar to get food. Sadly Nami held all the money and she's very stingy when it comes to it.
"Nami, I want food!", begged Luffy, clutching his thin stomach. He looked at Nami with puppy dog eyes.
"Fine, Luffy, we'll go and get food." Nami said, annoyed.
There really wasn't any point in trying to resist Luffy, he was bound to get his way. And plus he could always pull the Captain's Order on them.
"YAY!", Luffy exclaimed as he ran off to the nearest bar.
Luffy didn't even wait for the rest of his crew to cetch up to him, and they didn't try to either.
Luffy relied on his noise to lead him to the closest place to eat.
As he arrived at the bar, Luffy bursted the doors open.
"FOOD!", squealed the euphoric teen.
He then rushed to the nearest empty table, and waited for the rest of his crew to arrive. He wasn't that mean to start eating without them...all the time.
~At the bar~
Soon the rest of the Strawhat crew followed into the bar. They saw Luffy's waving hands and headed over to him. The bar's waitress came and got the orders then walked off to get the orders started.
The poor waitress swore she served the same people again. This group was almost identical to the group on the other side of the bar. As she walked to the back to give the cook the order.
It was about ten minutes later when the waitress came back with their food. And left yet again to attend to other customers.
The group was about half way through their meal when Nami gave them a reminder of what was to be done after they got done eating.
"Ok, so after we done here, we'll buy our supplies. Then, we should leave to Fish-Man Island." Nami instructed to the others. Who all nodded their heads, or thoses who were paying any attention to her at the moment. Some were too busy stuffing their faces with food.
*Robin POV*
Robin looked around the bar, everything was made of wood, except for a few seascape paintings throughout the place. The bartender had a bored complexion on his face. The usual type of customers filled the bar, each and every visitor from near and far.
In spite of this, what had caught Robin's eye was a girl who looked liked someone she knew. The mysterious girl had shaggy black hair, a familiar face-splitting smile, and a straw hat that almost looked like that of her Captain. The only thing different about this girl was that she had deep emerald green eyes and no scar under her left eye. This girl was talking to her friends, and they were observing at some poster in the center of the table.
Maybe, they are bounty hunters? Robin thought. She was about to summon one of her limbs, with an eye attached to see if she was correct. After all, Robin and her whole crew had bounties on their heads. And with everything they just went through to save her, she wasn't going to have some bounty hunters sneek up on them.
Just as she was about to use her devil fruit powers, the girl pulled off her hat and wrapped it around her neck in such a way to conceal it from bystanders. Now this, had Robin curious. Robin looked at her crew, they appear to be more than oblivious to the mysterious girl and the group she was with.
Robin turned her attention back to the group on the other side of the bar.
The group paused for only just a brief moment, then talked amongst themselves. In no time after that, they stood up from their seats. The girl got up first, followed by a boy with dirty blonde hair and three swords strapped to his waist. Wait, was Zoro's prized sword amongst them? Robin thought hesitantly, but couldn't tell.
Two identical figures with blondish hair were the next ones to rise. From the looks of it, the two were twins. Robin, confused more than ever, couldn't distinguish the age difference between the two of them if they weren't twins. She still continued to watch.
Soon after, came the guy dressed in a green shirt, followed by the girl with a black cowboys hat. Finally, there was the guy who seemed to be the oldest out of all of them, maroon hair standing atop his head.
The swordsman moved to the girl with strawhat's left and one of the twins. He moved behind the two in such a way to hide the swords from sight. However, Robin was quick enough to verify the concealed weapons.
'Another one who uses the Three-Sword Style?', she thought quietly to herself.
The girl with blondish hair,(one of the twins) moved to the girl with the strawhat's right. Followed by the other three, they moved in a formation that made it almost impossible to see the hat or the swords. Robin watched cautiously as they left the bar, paying for the tab as they left.
Robin turned back to her crew and everywhere she looked, there were mountains of plates around them and her Captain. This was normal at mealtimes. The crew decided to talk about what they were going to do next, and chose to go and do their own thing for the next 4 hours. 'I think I'm going to follow that group with the mysterious girl.' Robin thought to herself.
Robin looked at her crew, and saw that Nami had tears in her eyes. It was her turn again to be paying the tab at the bar.
Robin just smiled at her.
~Outside the bar~
Robin and her friends left the bar a few seconds ago, and was taking in her surroundings trying to spot that group from before.
The village was a quiet little place and it seemed nothing was going on. Most of the buildings were wooden. There where some buildings that were missing some windows. The market place was probably the best place in this whole village or the trading post. The villagers had an expression of annoyance or mere boredom.
This place won't entertain my Captain at all. Robin thought. As she walked down the main road, Robin tried to find where that group went.
"Robin-chan! Where are you going?" shouted Sanji, he had a blonde hair with a very curly eyebrow on his forehead. One eye was coved by his hair and he always seemed to have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
"Ahh, Cook-san, I'm just going out for a walk. I'll be back at the ship when it is time to leave. Don't worry I'll be back." Robin told Sanji.
Ever since she disappeared back at Waters 7, and came back Sanji always made she one of the other crewmembers usually Chopper went with her. She just thought it was cute.
Robin continued on her way, away from her crew that started to separate into their own little groups, or going solo as for some.
Robin casually moved around in an attempt to find the group that departed from the bar eairler. She has always made it easy on herself to use her devil fruit powers, but it usually makes her tired in the end.
Just then, she saw a mop of maroon hair out of the corner of her eye. Without hesitation, she went in the same direction.
Robin followed behind, careful enough to make sure she was far enough to keep herself from being seen. Yet, surprisingly enough, she was close enough to have the person within her range of vision.
The group appeared to be heading out of the village and into the forest. As if to get away from for some privacy or was it to get away from someone(s).
Robin knew better than to get too close to the group, but when they stopped, she stopped and started to eavesdrop.
They where now deep in the forest.
There was just something about this group that didn't sit right with her. She was going to find out what was so wrong. Thoughts began to become overwhelming. She stopped to think.